live CD doesn't start

[clionel]

Hello,
I downloaded the KDE version of OpenSuse (11.1) and bootet from that live cd an everything was fine. I had a first look at the system and I could everything. But because it as late at night I said to myself "Better install it tomorrow". And today I did exactly the same and the screen "Linux Kernel is loading" appeard. But after that there was darkness for ten minutes. Nothing happened. I even made a new disk but this didn't work either. Now I'm wondering who it can happen that yesterday everything worked and today nothing does.
One more information:
When I click fail safe settings it works well until the installation because he oesn't recognize the harddisk.

My system:
Acer Aspire 5920G with Windows Vista
Intel Core 2 duo CPU T7300 (2GHz)
VGA Bios Version: Nvidia 0.84.41.00.18

I hope somebod can help.
Clionel

[caf4926]

If it's a live cd. Don't start the installer when you boot from Failsafe. Open a terminal konsole and type su hit enter a couple of times and now type this:
fdisk -l

(That's an L, l, as in Lost)Post the result here

[clionel]

Hi and thanks for your reply,
this is my result:

linux:/home/linux # fdisk -l

Platte /dev/sda: 160.0 GByte, 160041885696 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 19457 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb36c4106

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1274 10233373+ 12 Compaq Diagnostics
/dev/sda2 * 1275 11735 84027531+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 11736 18472 54114952+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 19034 19458 3398656 17 Verst. HPFS/NTFS

Platte /dev/sdb: 8053 MByte, 8053063680 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 979 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00061c15

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 310 2490043+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 311 979 5373742+ 5 Erweiterte
/dev/sdb5 932 979 385528+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 311 897 4715014+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 898 931 273073+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris

Partitionstabelleneinträge sind nicht in Platten-Reihenfolge

I want to install it on the second HDD (dev/sdb).
I hope that helps and thanks for your effort.
Clionel

[caf4926]

Well it tells me your HD is recognised.
Try the installer again. You could always try adding these boot arguments to failsafe:acpi=off edd=off
Unless they are already there.


Else get the DVD, you have more options to get round issues

[clionel]

Hi and thanks again,
I'm just trying it with the installer.
Can you please specify the functions the DVD has. In which way will they help me?
Clionel

[caf4926]

The DVD can be used in text mode and more boot options. I'm trying to remember if there is a text method from the CD.
Maybe someone else knows.

[clionel]

Hi,
I went through the installer a couple of minutes ago and he gave me the error that the partition couldn't be formatted with ext3. The was also an error code of -3009.
When I format it in the terminal with mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb I don't get an error. But why do I get it during the installation?
I'm a little confused about it.
So could you please help me?
Clionel

[caf4926]

This is the disc you are using correct

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 310 2490043+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 311 979 5373742+ 5 Erweiterte
/dev/sdb5 932 979 385528+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 311 897 4715014+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 898 931 273073+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris

why are the 2 swap partitions?

Do you need to keep data on sdb at all? It could do with partitioning nicely.

[clionel]

Hi,
yes it's the right one but the partitions have changed a bit during the installation and my actions. The now look like this:

Disk /dev/sdb: 8053 MB, 8053063680 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 979 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000bab31

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 129 1036161 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 130 979 6827625 83 Linux

Hope that it'll help

And what do you mean by "do you need to keep data on the sdb all the time"?
Clionel

[caf4926]

Start again and select Create Partition setup
then look for Custom expert partitioning

Delete everything and create
swap 2GB
/ (root) 20GB
/home (all the rest)

Look at these vids
http://files.myopera.com/carl4926/bl...ioning.avi.zip
http://files.myopera.com/carl4926/bl....1_install.rar